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Within the US$1+ trillion global professional services industry, the finance sector has recently looked susceptible to a growing chorus of start-ups looking to strategically rethink finance’s core...
A curious client recently asked – “Couldn’t financial modeling risk be diminished by introducing a Quality Assurance Review Panel (“QARP”)?” It was a simple, pragmatic question that left me momentari...
A recent list of the World's Top Tools for Learning is a stark reminder of how rapidly the educational ecosystem has moved beyond the traditional classroom. Most young professionals seem to have readi...
You’ve probably heard the phrase “a fox watching the henhouse.” Today, that applies to people on the inside of organizations who work in trusted positions, and who use those positions to steal client ...
I hear that some dealers are suggesting that they will not become members of CCPs which are not deemed to be robust. This brings some interesting questions to the table. A good start is that dealers h...
Gold is heading north again this morning. As the dollar weakens and there is a flight to safe-haven “hard” assets, gold has broken through the USD 1,700/oz barrier and continues to rise. Last week p...
Latest on the country front – aiming at > 1. saving tax payer’s money, 2. collecting VAT due – efficiently, 3.pushing the SME-sector into better productivity, 4. increasing work force upward mobili...
It has been said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” and as recent events have demonstrated, many European banks held too little loss-absorbing capital to allow for the ri...
It’s been interesting to watch the European MTFs jockeying for position over the summer. Seems like Chi-X is continuing to grow its market share of all European indices fairly steadily, whilst the re...
Over the last few years that I have worked in Sales and I introduce my company and ask a simple CRM adoption question of the sales team and their chosen CRM system. These are some of the more interest...
The release of the iPad in April 2010 has had a transformational impact on the world, and the tablet device has moved from being a minority form-factor within the enterprise laptop market, to a true c...
Improvement should part of regular maintenance A couple of weeks ago it was time for the bi-annual checkup of my car again. Not that anything was wrong with it, but it is part of the service agreement...